The Auspicious Beast's Boldness!

"Soul Engineer?"

Nan Qiuqiu hesitated slightly.

Although soul tool technology was developing at an astonishing pace, it was still far more advanced in the Sun Moon Empire.

After all, the Sun Moon Empire held Soul Engineers in great esteem. The status of high-level Soul Engineers was even far higher than that of ordinary nobles.

Among the Three Great Empires of Douluo Continent, which noble family could accept Soul Engineers holding a higher status than them?

One had to know that noble status had been earned by their ancestors and passed down generation after generation through their incomparably noble bloodlines!

Soul Engineers, meanwhile, were merely lowborn commoners who could gain immense power through simple study, then lord it over the nobles. No noble house would ever accept that.

Thus, the great noble houses all resisted soul tools. Even if the emperors wanted to develop them, there were people within their own Imperial Families who opposed it.

Everyone could see that developing soul tool technology was the trend of the times.

But seeing it and actually doing it were two very different things.

It could be said that even in the Heavenly Soul Empire and Dou Ling Empire, their most luxurious capitals were still filled with the flavor of the previous century, rejecting everything related to soul tools.

Even Shrek Academy, the Continent's Number One Academy, was fiercely opposed to soul tools. The great noble houses were even worse!

However, Dragon City was filled with sects, so its resistance toward soul tools was not quite as strong.

After all, sects cared more about their overall development. From the Tang Sect Hidden Weapons of the previous era to today's soul tools, the principle was the same.

It was just that most powerful Soul Engineers had gone to the Sun Moon Empire. Those who remained were generally Soul Engineers whose families had plenty of money, who did not want to leave their homeland, and who lacked much ambition.

To put it bluntly, the ones who stayed behind were all pretty lousy!

"By the way, Lord True Dragon, why would a soul beast like you be interested in human soul tools?"

"Research. Just doing some research!"

Nan Qiuqiu pondered it in her mind. Ordinary Soul Engineers would naturally be of no use to Lord True Dragon, but finding one worthy of note was genuinely difficult.

"Ah! I've got it!"

"I heard Mother say that some Soul Engineers recently came to Dragon City. They seem to be from the Star Luo Empire and said they were here to complete some mission. There's even an important figure among them, whom the Heavenly Dragon Sect Master respectfully invited into the sect."

"I think..." Nan Qiuqiu thought for a moment. "I think they have a Level 7 Soul Engineer?"

A group of Soul Engineers had arrived?

And they were here on a mission?

Gu Yu frowned slightly. Dragon City was close to the Far North—could they be connected to that Level 9 Soul Engineer?

After all, that unknown great expert, who was supposedly a Level 9 Soul Engineer of the "Sun Moon Empire," had captured the Snow Empress with the God Sealing Platform. Yet he had not sold her to Sun Moon, instead selling her to its enemy, Star Luo.

If that Level 9 Soul Engineer had not been plagued by something filthy, Gu Yu really would have wanted to ask him something.

Just how had that guy happened to find the Snow Empress's location, and then so luckily arrived just as she was rebuilding herself into a human and sealing her strength?

Everything was far too coincidental.

If it was merely good luck...

Then selling her to Star Luo was plainly suspicious.

"Fine. Take me there!"

Nan Qiuqiu had no idea what Lord True Dragon in her arms was thinking, nor why he was interested in human soul tools.

But that did not stop her little head from containing great wisdom.

She suddenly thought that, given the lifespan of soul beasts, if they truly could research soul tools like humans, would they not far surpass humanity?

Then they could use the soul tool technology learned from humans to enslave humans.

She did not even dare imagine such a scene.

Lord True Dragon's training?

A flush rose to Nan Qiuqiu's face, as though she had awakened some incredible new trait!

"Xiao Bai, I want to eat that!"

"Certainly, Eldest Miss!"

After receiving the Snow Empress's orders, the simple-minded Xiao Bai was to personally protect the two little ancestors. Naturally, he granted every request!

"Customer, which skewer would you like?"

Xiao Bai pulled out a Spirit Bone from his robes and casually tossed it over.

"We'll take this entire cart of Tanghulu!"

The vendor: Huh?

Staring at the Spirit Bone in his hand, the little vendor went completely dumbfounded.

What the hell?

Who was this?

So rich?

A Spirit Bone just like that?

Was this a joke?

But from Xiao Bai's perspective, he could not possibly eat without paying. This was the human world, not the Far North, where one could simply snatch food when hungry.

Even this had only happened because Gu Yu told him to bring some human currency.

But why would soul beasts need human currency?

Still, he could use the Spirit Bones humans flocked after to exchange for some money.

Yet a whole cart of Tanghulu for one Spirit Bone—even if it was the lowest-grade kind, only a few hundred years old—

It was still a Spirit Bone!

Something like that could be passed down as a family heirloom!

The little vendor only felt that it was scorching hot. Wouldn't he die if he accepted it?

"Sir, sir! This won't do! I don't have the fate for this!"

The little vendor hurriedly returned the hot potato. He was an ordinary man—holding a Spirit Bone was practically courting death!

Dragon City might be quite peaceful, but he was not even a Level 10 soul master. In the eyes of soul masters, he barely even counted as a person.

Taking a Spirit Bone was practically using his own life as a joke!

Xiao Bai scratched his head. But he did not have money either.

Fortunately, Nan Qiuqiu, who was walking ahead, noticed the situation in time. She quickly took out her purse and tossed over a Gold Soul Coin.

Then she took back the Spirit Bone.

Nan Qiuqiu said, "Senior, if you want to buy anything, just tell Qiuqiu. There's no need for you to spend anything!"

It had to be said, Nan Qiuqiu was truly bold.

She clearly knew Xiao Bai was a ferocious beast, yet she did not seem afraid in the slightest.

"Woman! Since you've behaved so well, this Auspicious Beast shall forgive your ignorance once again!"

"Mmm~ So tasty!"

The Auspicious Beast ate three or four Tanghulu in a single bite. They were sweet—far too delicious!

They were even sweeter than the fruit in the Star Dou Great Forest!

The Auspicious Beast finally understood the wonders of the human world. There was so much delicious food here, all things she could not eat in the Star Dou Great Forest.

"Damn Scarlet King! It's all his fault for constantly watching me, leaving me with no worldly knowledge after living for so many years. Xiao Bai, you're much better!"

The Auspicious Beast secretly wiped her sticky hands on Xiao Bai's clothes, deeply moved.

Compared to Scarlet King, Xiao Bai was much better!

Being thrown into the Far North by Di Tian might not have been a bad thing. Otherwise, she would never have had the chance to come to the human world.

"Right, this Auspicious Beast was not exiled!"

"Rather, I am the ambassador of peaceful and friendly exchanges between the Star Dou Great Forest and the Far North!"

"For peace between the two great soul beast powers, I, the Auspicious Beast, have an unshirkable duty!"

"Mmm~ So tasty!"

The Auspicious Beast held one skewer in each claw and stood atop Xiao Bai's head, her heroic spirit soaring to the skies!

"Di Tian, you really knelt before me!"

Di Tian:?

How outrageous!